The National Map, as seen on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, before the Gulf of Mexico was renamed the Gulf of America. Get Tri-state area news delivered to your inbox with NBC New York's News Headlines ...

By MEG KINNARD. President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would move to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” a name he said has a “beautiful ring to it.” ...

How Did The Gulf Of Mexico Get Its Name? Spanish explorer Sebastián de Ocampo in the early 1500s became the first European to discover the Gulf, according to the Texas State Historical ...

Retropolis The Gulf of Mexico’s long history of colonization and varying names. Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.

The Gulf of Mexico has been so named at least since the late 1600s, when it was used to describe the body of water that's bordered to the north by the United States' southern coast, from Texas to ...

The gulf's shoreline is about 3,540 miles, more than half of it bordering Mexico's coast, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, although that does not account for the myriad bays and ...

The Gulf of Mexico has appeared on maps for centuries, but geographic name changes are common throughout history. This name change has an immediate impact on U.S. federal agencies that map or ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will delay by two years a final rule designating protections for the endangered ...

Mexico is suing tech giant Google for labeling the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America for U.S. users, after President Trump ordered the U.S. government to change the body of water's name, ...

The Gulf of Mexico is a 218,000-square-mile oceanic basin connected to the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean through the Florida Straits and the Yucatán Channel.

The Gulf of Mexico has carried that name for more than 400 years. The Associated Press refers to it by its original name while acknowledging the new name Trump has chosen.

Trump says he won't rule out military force to take Greenland 02:55. President-elect Donald Trump says he plans to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America," calling the move ...